RPI Hockey 2019 - 2020 Part II: Moving on with 2020 Vision!

[DrDemento]

Re: RPI Hockey 2019 - 2020 Part II: Moving on with 2020 Vision!

OTOH, the women were in a deep hole, and they are digging it even deeper.

I would have been happy with a first round home series this year. We've gotten that and can still get a bye, or a first-round series win, or more.

Early in the season I also would have just been hoping for a first round home ice series. But after New Years, when I began to see the young defense jelling and the play of Savory, I began to dream a bit again. Something I have not done about our team in several years. Still felt the best we could do was perhaps a bit higher seed but still just for home ice in the first round. But the wins against Colgate, Dartmouth and Quinnipiac have me looking for a bit more. Still rather remote chance of a bye but a solid 5th seed is quite a bit more than I thought possible for most of the season.

[Ralph Baer]

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Considering who lost to my earlier suggestion, I am very much honored. But you have to take into account that i am also very much drunk!

What was your other suggestion?

[RPI67]

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Early in the season I also would have just been hoping for a first round home ice series. But after New Years, when I began to see the young defense jelling and the play of Savory, I began to dream a bit again. Something I have not done about our team in several years. Still felt the best we could do was perhaps a bit higher seed but still just for home ice in the first round. But the wins against Colgate, Dartmouth and Quinnipiac have me looking for a bit more. Still rather remote chance of a bye but a solid 5th seed is quite a bit more than I thought possible for most of the season.

Agree. I was optimistically thinking of a home ice series win to play the number 1 seed.
Savory with improved defense has thoughts of playing a 4 or 3 seed. Preparation by players
and coaches have been rewarded.

[Ralph Baer]

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[engineerhockeyfan]

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Agree. I was optimistically thinking of a home ice series win to play the number 1 seed.
Savory with improved defense has thoughts of playing a 4 or 3 seed. Preparation by players
and coaches have been rewarded.

I haven't seen this much excitement here in 20 years. Even the Pirri/DiAmigo year didn't create this much enthusiasm.
And while I join in the excitement, I keep telling myself, "one game at a time".
I just don't want to get ahead of myself.
On to Harvard.
LGR

[Ralph Baer]

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I haven't seen this much excitement here in 20 years. Even the Pirri/DiAmigo year didn't create this much enthusiasm.
And while I join in the excitement, I keep telling myself, "one game at a time".
I just don't want to get ahead of myself.
On to Harvard.
LGR

Read that again, Ralph. It does say "excitement", not "excXement".

[realet]

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I haven't seen this much excitement here in 20 years. Even the Pirri/DiAmigo year didn't create this much enthusiasm.

Oof.

Do not agree.

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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Oof.

Do not agree.

+1

[NPC19850330]

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Oof.

Do not agree.

This deserves a QFT.

[TucsonMike]

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I haven't seen this much excitement here in 20 years. Even the Pirri/DiAmigo year didn't create this much enthusiasm.
And while I join in the excitement, I keep telling myself, "one game at a time".
I just don't want to get ahead of myself.
On to Harvard.
LGR

It's the GelStiX.

[engineerhockeyfan]

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Oof.

Do not agree.

I accept that, so I will agree to disagree.

[lugnut92]

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Post count doesn't directly translate into excitement and obviously there are far fewer regular posters here now, but we got 6 threads deep in the 2010-11 season and 5 deep in 2012-13, and that doesn't include pages and pages of discussion in every weekend thread.

[Ralph Baer]

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Post count doesn't directly translate into excitement and obviously there are far fewer regular posters here now, but we got 6 threads deep in the 2010-11 season and 5 deep in 2012-13, and that doesn't include pages and pages of discussion in every weekend thread.

I suspect that fewer posters is the major contributor.

[RPI fan 4 life]

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I suspect that fewer posters is the major contributor.

Especially a certain “dude” who frequently posted here.

[Noresmen]

Agree. I was optimistically thinking of a home ice series win to play the number 1 seed.
Savory with improved defense has thoughts of playing a 4 or 3 seed. Preparation by players
and coaches have been rewarded.

Personally I don’t like the bye week. To me if your the 1 or 2 seed maybe it’s an advantage. Certainly not at 4. In this instance Finishing 4th would mean a series against Harvard and finishing in 5th would mean the same thing. The only difference is the venue. I think if you asked the team they would prefer the momentum of continuous play vs practice. As sketchy as Harvard has been this season I would want to play them with them in a weeks worth of extra practices and sitting around. But that’s just my opinion.